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Single Idea 12471
[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
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Full Idea
To say a Notion is imprinted n the Mind, and yet at the same time to say, that the mind is ignorant of it, and never yet took notice of it, is to make this Impression nothing.
Gist of Idea
Innate ideas are nothing, if they are in the mind but we are unaware of them
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 1.02.05)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.50
A Reaction
Not much of an argument, given that Locke would accept that we remember things, but have enormous difficulty recalling them. The introspective evidence of innateness I take to be the obviousness of a new idea, when it strikes.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[concepts as innate or native ingredients of minds]:
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3631
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A blind man may still contain the idea of colour
[Descartes]
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2273
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The ideas of God and of my self are innate in me
[Descartes]
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2285
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I can think of innumerable shapes I have never experienced
[Descartes]
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2286
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The idea of a supremely perfect being is within me, like the basic concepts of mathematics
[Descartes]
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2600
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The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought
[Descartes]
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2601
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Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them
[Descartes]
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12471
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Innate ideas are nothing, if they are in the mind but we are unaware of them
[Locke]
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8100
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Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from?
[Joubert]
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6649
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Chomsky now says concepts are basically innate, as well as syntax
[Chomsky, by Lowe]
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6650
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Fodor is now less keen on the innateness of concepts
[Fodor, by Lowe]
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2492
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Experience can't explain itself; the concepts needed must originate outside experience
[Fodor]
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11143
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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started
[Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]
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12662
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We have an innate capacity to form a concept, once we have grasped the stereotype
[Fodor]
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4997
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It seems unlikely that most concepts are innate, if a theory must be understood to grasp them
[Kirk,R]
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18592
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The concepts OBJECT or AGENT may be innate
[Machery]
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